What is Cloud Website Hosting?

Essentially, the genuine cloud hosting platform serves individual web hosting services like disk space, email, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, stats, web hosting CP, backup, and so on, on separate bunches of top-notch web servers. Each single service group makes a cluster. All the web servers in a cluster are devoted to serving exclusively the specific service and nothing apart from it. They will all perform as one single server, sharing the service's load in practically equal proportions. If there is a real cloud hosting service, there must be: a disk storage cluster, an electronic mail cluster, a File Transfer Protocol cluster, database clusters (MySQL/PostgreSQL), a DNS cluster, a statistics cluster, a website hosting Control Panel cluster, a backup cluster, and so on. All these separate service clusters will constitute the so-called cloud web hosting system.

The huge cloud web hosting scam. Quite modern today.

There is so much speculation going around about cloud web hosting nowadays. As you can see, cloud hosting does not only appear perplexing, but in reality it is extremely perplexing. The majority of the people are not at all aware of what cloud hosting is. Based on this widespread ignorance, the "cloud web hosting companies" speculate eagerly, just to secure the client and his/her five bucks per month. What a shame! A huge disgrace. This is owing to the fact that in the web hosting industry niche there are no tenets whatsoever. The domain industry niche has ICANN. The web hosting industry niche has no such legislative organization. That is why the hosting distributors speculate and tell lies overtly (quite directly, in fact) to their customers. Particularly the cPanel-based cloud web hosting providers. Let's uncover how much cloud web hosting they actually can deliver.

The facts about the cPanel-based "cloud" website hosting traders

If a cPanel-based website hosting merchandiser has a cloud web hosting platform at hand, which is very improbable, loads of servers have to be purchased. Which is also not inexpensive. We will get back to that at the end of this story. But before we do, let's see what the cloud predicaments are. So, it's quite improbable for a cPanel hosting company to have the cloud web hosting platform at hand, because inventing one demands years. Even when time and the provision of experienced personnel are not a predicament, loads of money must be invested too. Heaps of money. On top of that, cPanel is not open source. That's a big problem.

The absence of open source cloud hosting systems

There are no open source cloud web hosting platforms. There are no open source website hosting Control Panel interfaces (working with the cloud web hosting platform) either. Therefore, to have a cloud hosting solution at hand, first of all you have to establish one. In-house. In the second place, you have to develop the website hosting Control Panel as well.

Single server-based website hosting CPs

Popular website hosting CPs like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin, etc. are meant to operate on one web server only. All website hosting services (disk space, mail, File Transfer Protocol, databases, DNS, statistics, web hosting CP, backup, and so on) are being served at one and the same time on a single web server where these particular one-server hosting platforms and web hosting Control Panels are set up.

The shortage of open source website hosting CPs

So, you have to set up a custom hosting Control Panel that will perform unproblematically and to include it within the cloud system, as if it was a natural component of it. Good examples of in-house manufactured cloud website hosting solutions with custom invented website hosting Control Panels besides us, at Innowebhost, are MediaTemple and FreeHostia.

Cloud hosting hardware provision expenses

The minimum investment required, just for the cloud hosting hardware provision, equals somewhere between 60,000 USD and 80 thousand dollars. That's excluding the DDoS tool, which is another $15-20,000. Now you realize how many cloud hosting systems can be chanced on out there... and, especially, why the hosting sky is so blue... and almost unclouded!